Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-08-24
VIRGINIA VERBOS|TY,
The Republicans Of the Old Colony
State Have their Say In Answer
to the Democrats.

They ssArraign'' the administration
Of Grover Cleveland'' With q Zeal
Worthy Better Cause.
PETERSBURG, Va, August 22.-The Vir.
ginia Republican State Committee has
issued an address to the Republican cleo.
tors, the first part of which is in answer
to the address recently put forth by the
Democratic managers. After referring to
the endorsement of President Cleveland
and that this administration will receive q
cordial support from the Democratic party
of Virginia, the address states that the
Democrats are inconsistent and insincere,
as they demand the repeal OF the internal
revenue system and the passage OF the Blair
BILL when it is known that President Cleve.
land is opposed to the one and
wlrHHoLDs HIS ENDORSEMENT
from the others. His formal and expressed
approval of Secretary Mannings views
and recommendations upon the subject OF
taxation and revenue was conclusive. Sec-
retary Manning deprecates that there is no
longer any duty or tax imposed upon tea
and coffee, and while urging the reduction
of duties upon such articles of import as
are produced in our country, squarely op-
poses any reduction of taxes imposed
upon tobacco, fruit distillation and whis.
ky. President Cleveland approves these
views and recommendatiDns of Secretary
Manning. That Cleveland's administra-
tion is bitter Disappointment to the man.
ayers of the Democratic party of Viginia is
attested by
LOUD AND DEEP COMPLAINTS.
It may be that the Democratic managers
sincerely wish the repeal of the Internal
Revenue system. When they declare for
the repeal OF a system as part of the Dem
ocratic faith, they are guilty of efforts to
deceive the voters of this commonwealth.
That system is held by the Democratic
party as a hostage to compel the over
throw of the Repu blican policy ofprotection
to American labor and industries. The
National Democratic platform. upon
which Cleveland was elected. promised a
repeal of the Internal Revenue system.
but pledged the party to continue Internal
Revenue taxes and their application to the
of President Cleveland has
IGNORED ANY SUGGESTION
of a repeal OF the international reve-
nue. system. The Democratic majority
of the 49th Congress, speaking in
accordance with the views OF President
Cleveland has given unmistakable respon-
ses on behalf of the Democratic party.
a vofor o6y nf
upon the bill t. reduce the interna tional
revenue taxes. submitted by Mr.. Morrison,
chairman of the committee of ways and
means, July 10, 1886, and to an adverse
report upon a resolution ''repealing the
taxes upon tobacco" submitted on the
/ same date bv A: c. P. Breckenridge. of Ken
lucky. another leader and representative
of the Democratic majority. This is the
later record OF the national Democracy
now i'll power upon the
REPEAL OF THE REVENUE SYSTEM,
and that the Democratic party, which for
ten years, excepting the Forty-seventh
Congress, controlled the House of Repre-
sentatives and failed to act upon the sub
ject, and that it was in the Forty-seventh
Congress (Republican) that the taxes were
reduced fully fifty millions, the reduction
cents, yet the leaders of the Democratic
par Y in Virginia are trying to delude the
people into. the belief that the repeal of
that system may be accomplished by the
Democratic party. The promise OF this
repeal was made in 1884 and 1886 by the
several Democratic candidates for Congress,
but the people
WOULD NOT BE DECEIVED.
It now remains to be tested whether the
same hollow pretext can be used in this by
the Democrats with any more success than
attended them in 1886. We declare that
at the moment the Republican party lost
control of the government, it was prepared
to act upon this subject; that President
Arthur had urged the repeal of the tobacco
tax and a Democratic House, with
Republican Senate ready and anxious to
reduce the taxes, declined to proceed; that
the Republican Party is now practically
unitedrin favor OF the repeal Of the tax on
tobacco and fruit distillation and if re-
stored the pow er will remove the burden
which these domestic products have
so LONG ENDURED.
We assert that the Democratic party in
Congress is opposed to the repeal OF the In
ternal Revenue system, as shown by the
declaration OF it's leaders from President
Cleveland down. Ne appeal to you to
support the Republican candidate for the
Legislature and not waste your votes on
cand idates whose faction favoring the re-
peal of these taxes is in q hopeless minor
ity in it's national party. The platform OF
the Roanake Convention respecting the
tariff is arraigned as misleading and seek
ing to deceive the people upon a question
vital to their interests.
The Transplanted Lily.
New York Special: Mrs. Emile Charlotte
Langtry, through her counsel, Platte
& Bowers, has asked Justice Donohn
to transfer from the State to the United
States Circuit Court of this district the
suit begun against her by Edward G. Gil
more for SIG, 900, as All alleged balance
due him for his services as manager in her